Marion Wetherill Walton aka Marion Walton Putnam (November 19, 1899 – December 11, 1996 ) was an American sculptor and teacher born in New Rochelle, New York.
Walton was a WPAFederal Art Project artist, for whom she created three 1942 limestone relief pieces, Indian," "Mine Elevator" and "Campbell's Ledge" for the post office in Pittston, Pennsylvania.[5]
Walton's husband, James Putnam (19 Jun 1893 - 3 Feb 1966) whom she married in 1926,[6] worked for the publishing house, the MacMillan Company.[7] They had one child, Christopher and later were divorced.[8]
The late 1920s found Walton's mother Blanche Walton very involved in the New York music scene, at one point housing composer Béla Bartók during an American tour. Her apartment also hosted the first meeting of the American Musicological Society, a meeting that included Joseph Schillinger, Charles Seeger, and Joseph Yasser. She was also an early supporter of the American composer Henry Cowell and Aaron Copland[9]
^Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1984 p. 227
